Disney Infinity NEXT: March 1st (Episode 1) — My Predictions

So I wanted to take some time to sit back and give you my predictions and thoughts on the event.

First off, let me first say how beyond excited I am for these Disney Infinity NEXT events. I feel this is exactly what this franchise and community needs to get better communication and hopefully get rid of the leaks.

So what are my predictions?

Let me pull back on the reigns a bit.

The internet has been going WILD with theories, hopes, dreams, and everything else (as you would come to expect with anytime Disney says they are going to announce something).

But let me bring you back to the first sentence of this article, you may have noticed a word I have in bold.

This is the FIRST Disney Infinity NEXT event, meaning there are more to come. Head to the website, and you’ll notice the other important branding as well. This is the Disney Infinity Next Spring 2016 edition.

So this event will be solely focussing on what’s coming next to Disney Infinity 3.0. Not what’s coming in fall 2016, in 2017, etc. This is not the big “product announcement” event. This is what you should expect to come next to Disney Infinity 3.0.

So what is coming next? Let’s get to it.

What do we know is coming to Disney Infinity?

There are a lot of products we know about via various leaks or previous teases that could be announced. This is not what I think is going to be announced, per sey, but this is what we know is coming.

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All of those (except for Light FX Kylo Ren) have been confirmed as a release on March 15th (or in the surrounding dates depending on your region).

Light FX Kylo Ren is absolutely coming as he is available for pre-order at a couple of different websites in various countries, but the date has not been officially pegged down. But it seems like March 15th would be a smart move with everything else coming out that day.

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Alice in Wonderland.

Thanks to an official French Disney publication, we know that Alice, Mad Hatter, and Time will be coming to Disney Infinity 3.0.

We also know that we are getting at least one more play set for Disney Infinity. Due to the leak of the Alice in Wonderland content, it would make sense that the Play Set be Alice in Wonderland. But that is not confirmed yet.

Since the publication felt it was okay to publish, and since that this is the “Spring” edition of the Disney Infinity NEXT event, it would make sense to announce this content now.

Alice In Wonderland: Through the Looking Glass comes out in late May. So I can’t imagine Disney would host the “NEXT” event before then, though it is a possibility!

But still, if I was Disney, I’d use the event now to announce it. If it is three months out, with the notoriety of Disney leaks, it’s best to get it out now.

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A surprise.

I still think there are more figures to come in the first half of 2016, specifically Marvel.

So perhaps Disney Infinity decides to give us a big surprise at some non-leaked characters. But if those aren’t coming until summer time, perhaps they wait until the following NEXT event.

But I’m not going into the event expecting a surprise (but more on that later).

Speaking of the following NEXT event, this is when I expect Peter Pan.

Peter Pan isn’t set to come out until August/September of 2016. So no real reason to get him announced now. If they are planning on making these events a “regular” thing (a couple of times a year), then save it for a later one.

It’s becoming more and more apparent that there may not be a true Disney Infinity 4.0 as you’d come to expect. Disney Infinity is slowly becoming the “platform” they’ve promised since Day 1.

There may be a tease on what’s to come, but don’t expect a big unveiling of what’s to come.

So that’s it?

I’ve heard this phrase a couple of times already heading into this event. What do you mean “that’s it?!”

Basically yes, I’m only expecting what we know and maybe one surprise like “In addition to the Baloo patch we are excited to announce an updated toybox adding several new items like Mowgli and Bagherra townspeople, some set pieces, etc.” I do think this stream will set a precedent for what we can expect for Peter Pan news. We may see concept of his figure this stream, then the progress of him every following stream until release. If not, it would just wait until the stream before his launch. Do I hope for other figure announcements? Of course, but to those talking about “Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, Winter Soldier, etc.”. we probably won’t see them March 15th and part of the Marvel package of 5 figures JV mentioned simply because they would have been leaked too. With the B&H leak, Amazon Leak, and Gamestop leak, ONLY showing Black Panther, Antman and Vision, it seems highly unlikely we would see any others for that same launch day.

Cale

I hope they announce figures for Dipper and Mabel Pines.

Phil Shifley

As cool as that would be, the odds of that happening, at least at this event, are about as likely as an announcement for a Song of the South Playset and a figure for Uncle Remus (or “Symbiote” Remus).

Cale

Possibly, but there is a considerable amount of Gravity Falls unlockable content in both 2.0 and 3.0. Plus if they’re willing to add classic figures such as Baloo, Peter Pan and possibly Darkwing Duck, classic characters that modern-day children arguably wouldn’t know as well as the modern day characters, then there’s hope.

Fitzers

An announcement of who was picked for the #OurDisneyInfinity thing would be nice, too. Or saying, “Okay, time for the Marvel or Star Wars bit,” that John keeps talking about. That went up about 7 MONTHS AGO now (according to the OhMyDisney Poll that isn’t the only place they’re taking data from).

Jasper

Quick question: How do we know another playset (besides Battlegrounds) is coming? The base in the Hub only shows one extra space for Battlegrounds; not two extra spaces.

Sabrescene

The Disney Infinity team been asked a few times if more playsets were coming and said yes, more “playsets”

Jasper

That’s awesome, thanks.

Techstro

Where is there a Kylo Ren Light FX available for pre-order? I’ve held out since before 3.0 was available for download purchase…

Mr. E Anonymoose

None available in the US. As far as I know, only Amazon Soaib has it up for Pre-Order.

Techstro

“Soaib” is that a typo, I don’t see it under Soaib Amazon…

Mr. E Anonymoose

It was a typo. I meant to write Spain. It still might not be found I Disney already took it down

John Smith

We want Scarlet Witch!

Michael Sypher

Bold prediction: 1.0 & 2.0 playsets announced to be patched into 3.0 at a later date.

If they want DI to be a platform, they shouldn’t leave anything out.

Pcboy99

Why? That will just take up space on my console

Michael Sypher

Matter of principle, if they want DI to be an all-in-one platform, then make it ALL-in-one. Also it gives them incentive to give 1.0 characters some long overdue updates.

Techstro

That’s right, you tell’um. Make it platform! Roll-out the updates! Just one thing, make the move set optional to toggle 1.0 or 3.0 version… Tonto Rocks!!!

Pcboy99

Well, your principle is not logical why go back to playsets that are now outdated, I agree the 1.0 figures should be upgraded but, why take resources putting old playsets in a new game instead of putting those resources into a new playset.

Pcboy99

I hope they anounce more then all these leaks, wouldn’t this be around the time they would anounce the next game? Please correct me if I’m wrong

alexis

It looks like you pretty much 100%’d this one! Everything here happened

Techstro

Anonymous playsets and figures to come but the next announcements won’t be till summer cuz their seasonal(quarterly). That means they either they’re not dropping anything until then or they’ll drop spontaneously to us…